Sixties Surreal

Dan Nadel, Laura Phipps, Scott Rothkopf , Elisabeth Sussman

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Yale University
09 October 2025

Art & Architecture; Art & design styles: Surrealism & Dada; Exhibition catalogues & specific collections

A reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval

Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this volume moves beyond the established movements of pop art, minimalism, and conceptualism to shine a light on how American artists created a unique type of surrealism, making works suffused with eroticism, dread, wonder, violence, and liberation. A series of essays reveals how this new surrealism enabled artists to reconnect art to an increasingly untethered reality following the period of rapid postwar transformation and to imagine new worlds and models for art rooted in political and social change. Presenting a new framework to understand the work of artists such as Lee Bontecou, Franklin Williams, Nancy Grossman, Mel Casas, Yayoi Kusama, Jim Nutt, John Outterbridge, Ralph Arnold, H. C. Westermann, Romare Bearden, Louise Bourgeois, Christina Ramberg, and Robert Arneson, this study features an expansive chronology that highlights how a broad group of artists across the United States connected to each other through exhibitions, galleries, and collectives, offering a fresh perspective on how artists in the 1960s harnessed psychoanalysis, wordplay, and assemblage, among other strategies, to create new horizons for subject matter and form that continue to reverberate in American art today.

Distributed for the Whitney Museum of American Art

Exhibition Schedule:

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

(September 24, 2025–January 29, 2026)

Contributions by: Jo Applin
Edited by: Dan Nadel, Laura Phipps, Scott Rothkopf, Elisabeth Sussman
Imprint: Yale University
Country of Publication: United States [Currently unable to ship to USA: see Shipping Info]
Dimensions: Height: 279mm, Width: 267mm,
ISBN: 9780300284508
ISBN 10: 0300284500
Pages: 403
Publication Date: 09 October 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Dan Nadel is curator-at-large at the Lucas Museum of Narrative Art. Laura Phipps is associate curator, Scott Rothkopf is Alice Pratt Brown Director, and Elisabeth Sussman is curator, all at the Whitney Museum of American Art.